Robin facilitates A Woman's Voice at various gathering places, community centers, residential sites, colleges, prisons and hospitals that have an emphasis on helping those who have experienced trauma, addiction, violence or mental health issues learn about identifying and ending abuse and gaining self-empowerment.

Robin facilitates Giving Youth A Voice at schools, community centers, residential sites and hospitals.

These programs aren't just about the crafting of songs but about going to the vulnerable scary place and beginning to feel comfortable telling your story.

A WOMAN'S VOICE SONGWRITING/CD RECORDING WORKSHOP

The goal of A Woman's Voice is to provide a way for participants to tap into their own inner healing capabilities through creative self-expression using the elements of lyrics put to music. The women will learn to have faith in their innate abilities and to trust themselves and others by learning and creating in a supportive environment that enables them to freely express what is on their minds and in their hearts.

These programs involve creativity and music. They effect positive change among people who have experienced trauma. The workshops are essentially a talking cure with music. We focus on collaborative writing within a group with special emphasis on songwriting as a means to joy and self-empowerment. Participants have an opportunity to tell their story, and their experience is heard and validated by group members. This program can be intergenerational, and the CD which will be produced can be used for fundraising events.

These crucial ingredients exist in A Woman's Voice:

• Community
  Non-existent at the start of program but is built slowly and powerfully over the many weeks.
• Understanding + Compassion
  It comes slowly as women share, express similar experiences and truly show caring for one another.
  
• Permission to Tell
  As each woman dares to share a little deeper, so does the next woman. Where truth is allowed, healing exists powerfully when added to empathy/compassion/support and community, as already mentioned.
• Support
  The support is self-evident but needs to be mentioned as a separate entity.
• Play
  Powerful and Unexplainable.

Programs:

• 2-week 2-hour songwriting/recording workshop (group song first week, recording second week. Each participant will be mailed a CD of the song.)
• 6-week 2-hour songwriting/recording workshop (2-3 songs written first 3-4 weeks, recording weeks 4-6. Participants will be mailed CD of songs.)
• 12- to 16-week workshop. With Robin's help, participants will write group and individual songs.

Additional information may be found at A Woman's Voice.